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Enhanced road lights

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I wonder what's peoples experience with this new feature.

I have the ORBX lights and didn't see a huge difference with this option enabled in either normal or dense setting. Furthermore, I kept getting plenty of DXGI hangs until I set the slider to off. 

To be fair, I can't say for sure this was the culprit as I changed some other things as well. Just wonder what others make of it being a new feature...

Edited by ha5mvo

They only show in complete darkness hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.. And in my opinion they do not dim enough as they get further away, but a nice addition.

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28 minutes ago, TurboKen said:

They only show in complete darkness hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.. And in my opinion they do not dim enough as they get further away, but a nice addition.

Could you please show us a picture of the road lights lighting up the clouds because I wasn't able to see that just yet. Even though I played around in time preview but didn't notice anything lighting up the skies... Or maybe I just have to look harder haha 😅

Balint Szarka

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On 6/12/2021 at 5:45 AM, ha5mvo said:

I wonder what's peoples experience with this new feature.

I have the ORBX lights and didn't see a huge difference with this option enabled in either normal or dense setting. Furthermore, I kept getting plenty of DXGI hangs until I set the slider to off. 

To be fair, I can't say for sure this was the culprit as I changed some other things as well. Just wonder what others make of it being a new feature...

Hi, I ended up disabling them because of the slight performance hit but mostly because road lights will duplicate if you have Global installed. I like them, though because I set my autogen and draw distance to medium so ORBX lights don't go as far as the new p3d do. Another pro for me is that they are brighter which I like better. Cons, what turboken stated, they appear when it's too dark and the slight fps hit.

SN737

I like it and had it at sparse thou I disabled it as i did notice for eg at fsdt klax the lights came across the runways.

mike

21 hours ago, Balint Szarka said:

Could you please show us a picture of the road lights lighting up the clouds because I wasn't able to see that just yet. Even though I played around in time preview but didn't notice anything lighting up the skies... Or maybe I just have to look harder haha 😅

Wow lighting up the clouds? I didn't notice that. I will try some fog and see if it lights it up. But no I haven't seen that either.

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So what exactly are these road lights? Are they handled as autogen but with dynamic light properties? Do they light up the roads? Some shots that compare these new road lights with the road lights included with OrbX would be much appreciated!

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2 hours ago, TurboKen said:

Wow lighting up the clouds? I didn't notice that. I will try some fog and see if it lights it up. But no I haven't seen that either.

I might be wrong in thinking that it does light up the skies but if it only adds dynamic lights to the roads then it’s not a big deal for me.
 

That was my interpretation of the road lights but I am seemingly wrong then. Most probably I am / was wrong haha 😆 

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5 minutes ago, Balint Szarka said:

I might be wrong in thinking that it does light up the skies but if it only adds dynamic lights to the roads then it’s not a big deal for me.
 

That was my interpretation of the road lights but I am seemingly wrong then. Most probably I am / was wrong haha 😆 

I'll take a look, I think MSFS does that though. I haven't flown anything in at least 2 months since rebuilding my computer, been way too busy, until I DL ver 5.2 the other night.

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  • 3 months later...

what setting are you guys on for this?

any performance issues ?gpu or cpu intensive?

thanks

mike

sparse in p3d , together with a PESIM obyx lighting profile i downloaded to give it a try, hey it looks ok , not BM standard ofcourse but acceptable to me anyway and no way near as resource intensive as BM 

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  • 2 months later...

does anybody know if this setting is a hit on the GPU only, CPU only or a mixture?

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The lights of the roads are BGL based 

They are not dynamic 

They do not light up the clouds (what you often see is the Moon Light is reflecting and somehow reflecting the downside of the clouds ...which is not correct)

The road lights are implemented to have any...for users who haven't ORBX BASE OR want them in addition to ORBX BASE. 

The road lights are still too FPS consuming compared to ORBX BASE Road lights (it's reported at LM)

But overall a small step in the right direction. 

Marcus

Regards,

Marcus P.

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